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• Solar Flare
  Sun
  Northern Lights
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Cosmic Rays
   
  

  Solar flare

  A solar flare is a violent explosion in the Sun's atmosphere with an energy equivalent to tens of millions of hydrogen bombs. Solar flares take place in the solar corona and chromosphere, heating ... > more
• Stars
  Eris (Xena)
  Galaxies
  Astronomy
  Astrophysics
  Extrasolar Planets
   
  

  Brown dwarf

  Brown dwarfs were originally called black dwarfs, a classification for dark substellar objects floating freely in space which were too low in mass to sustain stable hydrogen ... > more
• Sun
  Solar Flare
  Astronomy
  Solar System
  Moon
  Northern Lights
   
  

  Solar eclipse

  A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. This configuration can only occur during a New Moon, when the ... > more
• Space Station
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
  Space Missions
  Astronomy
   
  

  Space Shuttle program

  NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's only manned launch vehicle currently in service. It is the first winged manned spacecraft ... > more
• Kuiper Belt
  Pluto
  Eris (Xena)
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Extrasolar Planets
   
  

  Eris (dwarf planet)

  Eris is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system. It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO), orbiting the Sun in a region of space known as the scattered disc, just beyond the Kuiper belt, and ... > more
• Satellites
  Pluto
  Moon
  Astronomy
  NASA
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
   
  

  Satellite

  A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). Satellites can be manmade or may be naturally occurring such as moons, comets, asteroids, planets, stars, and ... > more
• Solar System
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Sun
  Kuiper Belt
   
  

  Solar System

  The Solar System consists of the Sun and the other celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 165 known moons, three dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, and Eris and their four ... > more
• Solar Flare
  Sun
  Astronomy
  Astrophysics
  Northern Lights
  Cosmic Rays
   
  

  Corona

  In astronomy, a corona is the luminous plasma "atmosphere" of the Sun or other celestial body, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse, but also ... > more
• Galaxies
  Stars
  Astrophysics
  Astronomy
  Space Telescopes
  Sun
   
  

  Cepheid variable

  A Cepheid variable or Cepheid is a member of a particular class of variable stars, notable for a fairly tight correlation between their period of variability and absolute luminosity. Since the ... > more
• Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
  Extrasolar Planets
  Solar System
  Eris (Xena)
  Astronomy
   
  

  Definition of planet

  The definition of "planet" has for some time been the subject of intense debate. Although the word dates back thousands of years, no officially decreed scientific definition of "planet" existed ... > more

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